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Harley MS 1917

Record Id:

040-002047748

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047748

MDARK:

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LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1917

Title:

Decretals of Gregory IX, with gloss of Bernard of Parma

Scope & Content:

A copy of the Decretals of Gregory IX compiled by Raymond of Peñafort, with the preface addressed to the university of Bologna (over an erasure), incipit: '[excised] episcopus servus servorum dei dilectis filius doctoribus et scolaribus universitatis [over an erasure] bononie. Rex pacificus'; ends imperfecty in book 5, cap. 13.8; explicit: 'praecipimus, ut ad haec efficaciter exsequenda episcopi per dioeceses suas diligenter'; preceded by an added table of contents (ff. 2r-3v). The gloss is by Bernard of Parma, incipit: 'In huius libri'.

The reference system between the gloss and the text is that of the underlined lemmata (some of which are underlined in yellow).

Decoration:

Display script in blue with penwork decoration in red at the beginning of books and the preface (ff. 107r, 152v, 168v, excised from ff. 4r, 65r). 1 puzzle initial in blue and red with penwork decoration extending in the margins at the beginning of book 1 (f. 4r). Initials in blue red pen-flourishing in the text and initials in red with purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing in the gloss. Rubrics and paraphs in red. Small initials in blue in the text.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002047748

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1917 : Decretals of Gregory IX, with gloss of Bernard of Parma

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1919]/040-002047748

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1285

End Date:

1315

Date Range:

c 1290-c 1310

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 365 x 280 mm (text space: 175 x 115 mm; gloss space: 315 x 235 mm).

Foliation: ff. 184 (+ 7 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves: 3 at the beginning and 4 at the end; ff. 1-3 are medieval parchment flyleaves).

Collation: i²⁺¹(ff. 1-3); ii^10-1(ff. 4-12); iii¹²(ff. 13-24); iv¹⁰(ff. 25-34); v-vi¹²(ff. 35-58); vii¹⁰(ff. 59-68); viii¹²(ff. 69-80); ix¹⁰(ff. 81-90); x-xv¹²(ff. 91-162); xvi¹⁰(ff. 163-172); xvii¹²(ff. 173-184).

Script: Gothic. Written by several hands.

Binding: British Museum in-house binding. Rebound in 1965.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Southern France?

Provenance:

The table of contents partly erased and rewritten by a 14th-century English hand (f. 2r).

John Bury: mentioned in Cottey's note (below) as the donor of the manuscript (f. 5r; see Wright 1972).

John Cottey, perhaps to be identified with John Cottey or de Cotheye, Rector of Cheddon Fitzpaine, co. Somerset, 1328 (see Wright 1972), given to him by John Bury: his ownership note: 'Iste liber p[er]tinet ad d[omi]n[u]m Joh[ann]em Cottey ex donatio[n]e sibi f[a]cta aucto[rita]te et no[m]i[n]e magist[ri] Joh[ann]is Bury armig[er]ii no[n] vende[n]d[us] sed disponend[us] de p[re]sbit[er]o in p[re]sbit[er]um q[uam] dum durav[er]it ad ora[n]dum p[ro] a[n]i[m]a domini Wille[l]mi Rany yta q[uod] res t[ra]nssibit cu[m] suo onore ad quascu[m]que p[er]sonas ad q[ua]r[e] no[n] possesio[n]em deveniat' (f. 5r).

Samuel Knott (d. 1687), Rector of Combe Raleigh, Devon (1661-1668), antiquary and collector of manuscripts: his note (f. 1r).

Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), Prebendary of Exeter in 1701, Archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, Rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold by his widow on 17 May 1715 to Robert Harley, along with other manuscripts (see Wright and Wright 1966; Wright 1972).

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley, ‘17 Maij 1715’ (f. 1r).

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), Duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Administrative Context:

Southern France?

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.

Publications:

Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1697), II, pt. I, p. 233 no. 7656.

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), II (1808), no. 1917.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 11 n. 6.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 88, 89, 112, 211, 403.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

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